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Veterinary Professional Skills

In this week, we will be looking at Veterinary Professional Skills, and the teaching team to guide you through this part of the course are Rachel Whittington and Dr Jessie Paterson. We are also joined in one of the videos by our colleague Stacy Spielman. We hope you are enjoying the course so far and once again we suggest you start with the week 3 overview and then working through the core materials section.

Dr Gurå Therese Bergkvist

Rachel Whittington

Dr Catriona Bell

Dr Andrew Gardiner

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So, we've done the physical examination. And during the physical examination I found that he was a bit dehydrated. But you would expect that with his drinking all and then urinating all? >> Yes. >> So I have taken the urine sample that we discussed whilst I was in the physical examination. So that will take approximately five minutes. >> Okay. >> So do you have any questions? >> Well, do you have an indication of what do you think might be causing the illness? >> Well, its difficult for us to give a diagnosis at this point in time. But we've taken the urine sample and when I have the urine sample that should give us a bit more information on what could possibly be troubling Copper. And then we'll discuss whether we need blood tests and stuff like that. I know you're probably really worried at this point and time. >> Mm hm. >> But I can see that he's in good hands and you brought him in really early. So he had this since yesterday and you brought him in as soon as possible. So, I think that will help us a lot in figuring out what's wrong with him and helping us treat Copper. Well, it's important to have verbal and non verbal skills. So, it's important to have a good posture, so, you can lean forward to the clients, and that just shows them that you're interested and you're actually listening. It's good to nod your head to show that you are actively listening. You want to ask open and closed ended questions. So the close ended questions will always give you an exact answer, yes or no. But open ended questions allows the client to explain something. So I asked the client to describe the feces and she said it was yellow. And if she said it was a bit darker than usual, I would be thinking maybe there would be a bit of blood in the upper gastrointestinal tract and by the time it was excreted it would be a bit darker than it usually is. And as for any blood, so any fresh blood, which would mean probably a lower gastrointestinal tract problem. And it's important also to just reassure the client, but you can't tell them that it's all going to be okay. You've can just tell them you're going to try your best, and the dog is in good hands. And this client brought the dog in really early, so I think I was able to tell her that she had done well in bringing Copper in this early.

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